A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 945 The God of Wealth in the Dragon King Temple

Guangzhou.

"You still know how to come back?" As soon as Mr. and Mrs. Wu Huaiyu returned to Guangzhou City, Fan Xuanfu pounced on him like a tigress. He wished he could kill Wu Huaiyu with his horse-killing sword, but he said it fiercely, but immediately couldn't bear it. He stopped crying and held Wu Chengsi into his arms.
"Da Lang, do you miss your mother? It's been more than a year since I left. My mother misses you so much in Guangzhou,"

Wu Chengsi was a little embarrassed, "Auntie, I'm fine. I've traveled a lot this time and learned a lot. They say you can travel thousands of miles by reading thousands of books,"

Fan Xuanfu let go of his son and looked at his husband, "The elder is still young, how dare you take him out to sea?"

At this time, Li Qing, Yang Muyun, Runniang and others also came forward and helped to rescue them with a smile, "It'll be good to come back. Alang and Dalang are both fine too,"

"Yes, it seems that Dalang has grown a lot taller and his body has become stronger."

"Dalang, tell your aunt, is it fun to go to sea?"

"Is Liuqiu Island busy?"

Wu Chengsi was somewhat excited and told everyone about his travels over the past year, including Jiangzhou, Luoyang, and Bianzhou, Qingqi, Denglai, Zhangquan, Ludao, Penghu, Liuqiu, and finally Arrive in Luzon.

Such a piece of Moon Rabbit is worth three thousand guan.

"You all have them too,"

Wu Chengsi whispered in his mother's ear, "Mom, Luzon is a treasure island, and there is gold everywhere. We, the Wu family, used to transport goods by sea and trade with the natives. We exchanged goods for their gold and made a lot of money." ”

Runniang and other aunts all smiled and accepted the gifts, and then thanked Chengsi. Although everyone knew that Wu Huaiyu had brought them all, of course they had to thank Alang for asking Chengsi to deliver them.

Fan Xuanfu is like listening to wild and night stories,
The gold nugget weighing more than 180 kilograms, the ambergris weighing more than 180 kilograms?

"Put it away yourself," she said.

A gift of 300,000 yuan is expensive but has a good meaning.

Wu Huaiyu said from the side, "He still has it."

"Thank you, Dalang,"

In the past few years in Zhenguan, money was expensive and things were cheap, and the price of food had been relatively stable and low. The purchasing power of 300,000 yuan was extremely high. It could buy a large house with several acres of land in Dongcheng, the aristocratic district of Chang'an.

One tael of gold is worth eight guan, and one pound is 128 guan.
Runniang exclaimed on the side, "The big natural gold is called dog-head gold and horseshoe gold, and the medium-sized ones are called bran gold and bran gold. Those that weigh more than three qian are called bran gold, and those that weigh more than three taels are called dog-head gold.
The larger the gold nuggets are, the more valuable they are, especially those with good shapes, which are more expensive than pure gold. "

Brothers Shi Shouxin, Pang Yanzhang and others also directed the delivery of Huaiyu and his wife's belongings.

"It's twelve pounds,"

"Well, everyone has a share."

But looking at the twelve-pound moon rabbit in her hand, she felt that it might be real.

"Oh my God, it's so heavy."

But I don't believe that there is gold everywhere. If there is gold everywhere, how can I wait until now for the Wu family to exchange it.

"What nonsense are you talking about? Do you think the nugget gold is a copper mine or a gold mine, or is it soil and garbage that is everywhere?"

"Well, natural nugget gold,"

"It's true. The ship we came back was loaded with gold, ambergris, and other spices. The ballast was filled with Luzon ebony, coconut, rice, fur, dried fish, etc. Do you know, Auntie? We can exchange an archer's armor for six taels of gold sand at Jinshan Mountain in Northern Luzon, but when we get to Xinjin Mountain, we can even exchange it for twelve taels of gold sand."

You can buy thousands of acres of land in Guanzhong and Gyeonggi.

"Oh, my son has traveled thousands of miles, and my mother is worried, but the old man has always been thinking about my mother, and he has brought back such a precious gift."

Runniang looked at this piece of gold nugget that looked very much like a moon rabbit. It weighed twelve kilograms, which can be said to be extremely rare. In terms of the value of red gold alone, this piece was worth more than 1,500 yuan, but this weight and shape Good nugget gold is the best quality that can be found but cannot be found. Even if it is twice as expensive as red gold, it is possible.

Wu Chengsi told his mother excitedly, and the child couldn't help but show off.

There was a golden dog-head gold, a big gold nugget that looked like a rabbit, weighing twelve kilograms. "Aniang, do you think this looks like a rabbit? This must be the Moon Rabbit of Guanghan Palace. I give it to Aniang. I wish you the best." May my mother be blessed with good luck and stay young forever."

Wu Huaiyu kept smiling,
"Chengsi, send gifts to everyone,"

The family entered the house.

"I also brought gifts for everyone. They are all specialties collected from various places."

Open the box, the golden light shines.

Not only Wu Huaiyu's concubines had a share, but all the children also had a share, but the children's share was smaller, each weighing about half a catty of nugget gold.

Xuan Fu took it and his hand sank.
"Is this gold?"

Fan Xuanfu looked at the moon rabbit and was moved in his heart. It was not that he cared about the quality of the gift, but that it was a gift given to his son after he returned safely after being away from him for the first time for more than a year.

"The natives of Luzon have a lot of gold, which is not valuable at all. Our copper coins, 2,500 yuan, can be exchanged for one tael of gold for them, and it is still pure gold after refining..."

"What nonsense are you talking about? How is it possible?" Fan Xuanfu said. She did know Lu Song. After coming to Guangzhou, Wu Huaiyu sent people to open up Liuqiu and also secretly opened up Lu Song. He told her where Lu Song was in Liuqiu and also She had drawn a picture for her, and she knew that Luzon was in the southeast of Guangzhou, very far away, and very large, a large, wild island.

"I told you that Aye exchanged one cargo and two ships for a huge camel-shaped gold nugget weighing more than 180 kilograms. He also exchanged two ships and two cargoes for a piece of gold that weighed more than 180 kilograms. A gigantic pound of the finest white ambergris,"

She originally thought that the Xuan Fu was a copper vessel, or something made of distilled gold, but she didn't expect it to be a piece of gold. She also knew about gold nuggets, but she had never seen such a big one.

"The nugget gold worth more than ten kilograms can be exchanged for dozens of yuan, and the gold for one kilogram is even more. The price for less than one kilogram is not even calculated."

Wu Chengsi couldn't wait to open his box and distribute gifts to everyone. He did collect a lot of stuff as gifts, and naturally he gave the most to his biological mother Fan Xuanfu.

Each aunt gave a piece of gold nugget weighing more than a kilogram. They all had different shapes and were very beautiful. This piece was worth at least two to three hundred yuan.

Wu Huaiyu's heroic words stunned everyone.
"What else is there, nugget gold?"

A group of younger brothers and sisters listened with envy.

"Did Alang bring gifts for everyone?"

Fan Xuanfu smiled happily. Her husband and son returned safely and gave such a precious gift. Dalang seemed to be more sensible.

"Yes, they all are."

The gift Wu Huaiyu brought to everyone was perfume and ambergris.

Made into incense and worn around the neck, it becomes an ambergris necklace. This incense pendant is carefully blended with dragon's incense, agarwood, sandalwood, saffron, etc. It is pounded and blended using ancient methods to condense and soften the fragrant mud. , then press it into a cake with a special mold, then wrap it with gold and silver, and wear it on your body. Your body temperature will naturally promote the fragrance of the fragrant pendant, and the faint fragrance will float out.

Wu Huaiyu took out these fragrant pendants and gave each of his wife, concubines, and children one. Fan Xuanfu took it,
"When you first smell it, you can smell the refreshing fragrance of flowers. When you taste it, you can smell the deep and deep fragrance of sandalwood. It's really the best fragrance."

Li Qing liked to light incense and arrange flowers. He took the incense pendant and looked at it carefully. The more he looked at it, the more he liked it. The fragrant pendant has a pure gold outer ring, a gold chain, a hollow pattern on the pendant ring, and peonies wrapped around it. It is classic yet fashionable.

The pattern of the fragrant cake is the sword ring Ruyi cloud pattern unique to the art of rhinoceros in lacquerware, which means good luck and good luck.

Ambergris cake with gold chain and silver pendant,

Elegant, luxurious, elegant, elegant and charming.

Although it looks small, it is very expensive. The most expensive thing is not the gold chain or gold pendant, but the removable fragrant cake, which is made of ambergris, agarwood, sandalwood and other precious spices.

"It's so beautiful,"

Not only the wives and concubines like it, but also the children can't put it down. One or two layers of fragrant pendants, one or two layers of fragrant cakes, and one or two layers of gold chains.
The subtle fragrance is floating, elegant and charming,
"Ambergris can occasionally be seen in Guangzhou, but they are all sold at extremely high prices. The market value is no less than a hundred thousand per tael, and sometimes fifty or sixty guan."

The women of the Wu family also opened trading houses in Guangzhou Port, some in partnership and some on their own. They opened a total of thirteen trading houses and were engaged in trade. They were no strangers to ambergris.

The great sea merchants loved ambergris the most.
Yang Muyun looked at the fragrant pendant in his hand, "This fragrant cake is much more expensive than ambergris,"

Wu Huaiyu is a fragrant cake that has been condensed and processed. It is not natural ambergris. Natural ambergris is basically fragrance-free. Although it is expensive, it is really not as good as this processed compound fragrance.

Wu Huaiyu has many ambergris formulas. For example, there is a small ambergris that is composed of ambergris, agarwood and borneol.

"This piece of fragrant cake alone is worth at least two hundred thousand, this fragrant pendant and chain are all gold, this pattern and this wisp of space, the craftsmanship is so good,"

Two taels of gold were used, which is worth sixteen guan, not to mention the engraving, hollowing and other craftsmanship, which must be worth a lot.

Chengsi whispered to Xuanfu that Huaiyu had also received one hundred and eighty pounds of ambergris and nugget gold. This news was so shocking that she did not reveal it.

Wu Huaiyu took out some more gifts, but they were corals and pearls.
"These are just like asking skilled craftsmen to polish and process them into beaded chains,"

"I will prepare some ambergris perfume for everyone later. You can put it directly on your body. It will smell better."

The numerous gifts wiped away the original unhappiness of Fan Xuanfu and the others.

Shower, change clothes,
A grand reception feast was held at home to wash away the dust.

at night,

Fan Xuanfu took out his identity as a doctor and took Wu Huaiyu to his hospital. Although they had been an old couple for eight years, they had been apart for more than a year, so a separation was better than a new marriage.

"In the past year or so, you have taken a concubine and given birth to a child?"

After the first round, during the intermission, Xuan Fu leaned into Wu Huaiyu's arms and asked with a smile.

"Well, I have been traveling here and there for more than a year. Although I stayed in Liuqiu for a longer time, I also traveled around Liuqiu and returned to Ludao and Quanzhou from time to time."

"There's more than one woman, right?"

"That's true," Wu Huaiyu admitted honestly.

"Then why didn't you get pregnant if you didn't bring her back?"

When the two of them talked about this, it was quite natural. Fan Xuanfu didn't care, and Wu Huaiyu didn't take it seriously either.
"Asang and Jiro are staying in Lugang. The children are too young to bother running around. Besides, I plan to start Jiro in Lugang in the future."

"When they are older, they should take over their lives. The children should also go to school and so on. After they get married, it won't be too late to start a new business in Lugang."

"I think children should be sent to Chang'an to study after they are eleven or twelve years old. Although Guangzhou is not bad, the culture is still backward after all. If children go to Chang'an to study when they are eleven or twelve years old, no matter whether they have the talent for reading or not. , it is always appropriate to stay in Chang'an until Chengding, otherwise you will become a Lingnan barbarian and be out of touch with everyone." Xuan Fu said.

"Okay, then when you are twelve years old, you will be sent back to Chang'an to study, enter our Wu family's Qujiang Academy, and the outstanding ones will be sent to the Imperial College,"

Wu Huaiyu knew that he might stay in Lingnan for many more years and might not move within ten years, so the education of his children was indeed a problem.

The eldest son, Chengsi, is already eight years old. It is better to keep him with you if he is young now, but if he is older, he should be sent back to Chang'an. Chang'an is not only about good education, the key is the environment.

"What's going on in Luzon Island? Is it really as exaggerated as Chengsi said?"

"It's not an exaggeration. Our family can be considered the first to eat crabs. It can be regarded as picking up the first wave of dividends. There are indeed many gold mines there. The natives on the island have accumulated for many years and have a lot of gold in their hands. But we can exchange it for , they will soon exchange all the gold in their hands,

In the future, we will still have to dig for gold and mine, but the resources there are very good. Not only are there many gold mines, but there are also many copper mines, and there is also a lot of arable plain land. In the future, it will be very useful to cultivate sugar cane, cotton, grain production, textiles, etc. prospect,
Moreover, going south from Luzon, there are also islands rich in various spices. We slowly went south to find a route and purchase spices from the natives. This business was very profitable. "

"Did you really get gold nuggets and ambergris weighing more than 180 kilograms?"

"Well, the two tribes' treasures can be exchanged for three cargoes and three ships."

"Isn't that worth hundreds of millions of dollars?"

"That's natural, but it's hard to get rid of this thing. Let's keep it as a family treasure for now,"

"Tomorrow, follow me to the Dragon King Temple to burn incense."

Fan Xuanfu said that they worried about the two of them day and night and prayed at home every day. Later, they simply hired people to build a Dragon King Temple near the Inner Harbor outside Guangzhou.

The money paid by the martial arts women in this temple,

With a lot of money, the temple built is also big.

It not only enshrines the Dragon King of the South China Sea, but also the Dragon King of the four seas, as well as the Dragon King, the Sun, the Moon and the Stars, the God of Thunder, Lightning, Wind, Yu Bo, Earth God, and other gods.

He even made a golden body to worship Wu Huaiyu's teacher Xiaoyaozi.

Most dragon gods are worshiped in coastal areas, but usually only one. However, this temple built by the Wu family worships the Dragon King of the Four Seas and even many other gods.

Due to the large investment, the Dragon King Temple was built in a very grand manner.
It happened that there was a severe drought in Lingnan this year, so the Dragon King Temple was completed. Wu Huaiyi, the governor of Guangzhou, offered incense and came to pray for rain. As a result, the sky fell with sweet rain the next day, and it rained heavily in Lingnan. The drought was resolved. Now everyone thought that they had worshiped the true god.

Therefore, the Dragon King Temple is full of incense,

Especially those who go out to sea for transportation, trade, or fishing, they must pray before leaving the port and when they come back. If someone in the family goes to sea, they must come to worship.
And I don’t know since when, the land god Xiaoyaozi enshrined in the Dragon King Temple has been regarded as the God of Wealth by the people of Guangzhou. People who do business and not do business like to come to worship.

Wu Huaiyu was stunned.
Xiaoyaozi was not from this era at all. He was his teacher in Zhongnan Mountain in later generations. The old Taoist lived for 104 years and had already calculated the exact time of his emergence. The old Taoist looked ordinary at ordinary times, but he was cured. He was cured of his terminal illness and left behind a book called The Origin of Qi Ti.

He let himself go down the mountain to the north, and then walked into the Tang Dynasty.

Wu Huaiyu said in the Tang Dynasty that his teacher Xiaoyaozi was originally a Louguan Taoist, a hermit, and a land god. He also said that the corn, sweet potatoes, potatoes, peppers and other crops he brought were obtained by his teacher when he traveled overseas.
Nowadays, everyone believes in Xiaoyaozi. Even Lou Guan personally came out to endorse and testify, respecting Lao Dao as Master Lou Guan's uncle, and the emperor has repeatedly awarded him posthumous titles. As a result, his reputation among the people has become more and more popular.

But Wu Huaiyu really didn't expect that one day, the old Taoist more than a thousand years later would become the God of Wealth in the Tang Dynasty.

(End of this chapter)